Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) vs Pro GPU (20-core)
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Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
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We compared two integrated laptop professional GPUs: the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) with 1280 pipelines and 10240 shaders against the 6 months older Pro GPU (20-core) that utilizes 320 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
- Performs significantly better (up to 3.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 4x higher maximum theoretical performance (32.3 vs 8.1 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 3.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (218K vs 70K)
- Has 4x more shading units (10240 vs 2560)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 33418 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 19535 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 125.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 80 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 2.88 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 4.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 2.98 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 0.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 235 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 9516.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | - | 8046 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 15443 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 20807 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 30860 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 56783 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2888 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 6167 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 7592 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 33607 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 126726 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) and Pro GPU (20-core)General
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | May 1, 2025 | October 29, 2024 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Apple M GPU | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Custom | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5080 | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - Apple M4 Ultra or above | - Apple M4 Pro (14-Core) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Apple M4 Ultra | - Apple M4 Pro (14-Core) |
Laptop GPU ranking (#37th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 500 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1578 MHz | 1578 MHz |
| Shading Units | 10240 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 640 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 320 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 1280 | 320 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 505 GPixel/s | 126 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 1010 GTexel/s | 252 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Custom | Custom |
| TGP | 120 W | 26 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| Max. Temperature | - | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | 8533 MHz | 8533 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 1024-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
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